Both being professional and helping to professionalize the field as a whole

Teaching with intentional practice

Educating parents about our teaching practice

Helping parents and the broader public develop an understanding of children’s learning and development

Working toward acknowledgment of the experts and expertise present in our field. This includes publicizing the work of authors, master teachers, and researchers. It also includes applying current expertise to our own work.

For some educators, being understood as teacher-researchers, including having administrative support for reflective practice and research.

Having a high profile in public discourse

Having the respect of educators in other areas of education

Challenging the historical marginalization of early childhood education as “women’s work”. Clearing a path for the field to be respected for the real skill it takes, and thereby enabling and encouraging more men to enter the field.